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BRAGG BRIEFSGIs UNITED Against the War in VietnamBRAGG BRIEFS isConstitution of theGI's gas onealter70Lifers Rip OffGovernment Propertysoldiers, both EMofficers alike, have received alot of abuse lately about theirsupposed disrespect for the mil-itary system and for the Americansovernmente Such charges are us-ually evoked by such heinous in-fractions as wearing one~Ts side-burns a quarter inch too long,failing to have oneTs hair neatlycombed immediately vpon removingoneTs hat, or attending Gl~'s UN-ITED meetings.It*s about time the accusationswere aimed at a more appropriatetarget: older, higher-ranking sol-diers who show much morespect for the system by frequent-ly and blatantly manipulating andmisusing it for personal gaineThink about it: who's in a bet-ter position to know the loopholesin the system and to use them tohis own advantage, the younz sol-dier or the old@ Who's got thepower (i.ee, rank) to bend therule or regulation a little andget by with it, the PFC or the lstsergeant, the lieutenant or thecolonel? The answer is pretty ob-vious, and the evidence to supportthe answer is just as apparenteLet*s cite a few actual exam-ples of real and serious disres-pect and contempt:Take the case of the colonelat Fort Brass who holds some pri-vate business interests in a tractof land adjacent to a nearby smalltowne The colonel would naturallylike to develov and profit fromthis lands; and, being a shrewdfellow, he decides to advertisehis holdingse So he orders govern-ment photographers under his com-mand to take government camerasand government film, hop aboard asovernment airplane flown by asovernment pilot, and take aerialphotographs of his land. This filmis processed and printed in a sov-ernment lab, then used by a gf0v-ernment lithographer to make upposters and brochures written bygovernment writers and printedwith sovernment paper and inkeieanwhile government illustratorsare busy with sovernment paint andposterboard preparing siscns to a-dorn the colonel's acreage. Ifthat weren't enough, he uses sov-ernment vehicles and sovernmentdrivers to cart those signs, pos-ters and brochures about, and fora good measure has a few lowlyGil*s taggins alons to lug thestuff around. When you fifure inthe cost of manpower and mater-ial, this little caper - havingnothing to do, mind you, with themission of the colonel's unit,perpetrated solely for his own(continued on pave 6)Youn? anddisre-Unitedat Fort Brage,atives to the current militarStates.published in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and theIt is a free press published by active dutyNorth Carolina dedicated to establishing responsibleand economic stemSebonationNCY. WF Dew Re Curt Aokecy, aArmy Policy BansStraight PressThe current Pathet Lao andNorth Vietnamese offensive in Laoshas snown that constitutionalrights are limited by the zovern-ment for political reasonse Suchrishts as freedom of speech andpress are suvposed to exist, yetfor the past six years the milit-ary-industrial complex has for-bidden the press to write aboutour military involvement in LaoseThe major obstacle has been"Ground Rule 5". This is a milit-ary regulation which forbids thepress to report on ointelligenceactivities, methods of operationsor specific locatione� The penal-ty for any such violation wouldbe revocation of press credentialsin South Vietname Such a corporategiant as Newsweek has been warnednot to report on US operations inLaose Anyone in Southern Asia canread about our activities if theybuy The Time of India or any news-paper published in Hong Kong. Theonly ones who don't know abou¥what we are doing is the AmericanpubliceThe present administration hasused censorship to cover up itsescalation in Southeast Asiae Withtwo token withdrawals of US troopsfrom South Vietnam, Nixon has beenable to fool many into believingthat he is dis engaging from South-east Asia, while in reality he hasbeen escalating in Laos in orderto pressure the North Vietnamese.The stalemate in the Laotianwar was upset last summer when USfinanced and CIA directed Meo gue-rillas pushed the Pathet Lao andNorth Vietnamese out of the Plainof Jarse Since then Laotian pea-sants have been evacuated in orderto set up free fire zones. Aircombat support missions are at thesame intensity as the air war oncewas over North VietnameThe credibility gap of theJohnson administration has beenembraced by the Nixon regimee Thepublic's right to know has beensubverted and prostituted.GITs UNITED Ist Annniversary - Free Poster on Backbegan inwithLr li Ws4Free to ServicemenCOURT ORDERSHE-"_--S(TBRIEN RELEASE. Go NumaPVT David OBrien,months and 17 days in basictraining at Ft Bragg, was re-leased from the Army on March24th.O*Brien*s suit against Secre--tary of the Army, Stanley Resor,November 1968 and endedthe Fourth Circuit Court ofAppealsT ruling on March 18th.The final ruling granted O'*BrierTsseparation under the Army*s regu-lation of lack of jurisdiction.The Court ruled that O*Brien wasdenied due process by his Select-ive Service Board.O*Brien said that he had filedfor deferment as a conscientiousobjector and that, during an ap-pearance before the local board,the members stated that he wasSincere in his claim. Much of thedecision was vLased on the valid-ity of notes that O*Brien had tak-en after his appearances beforethe board and had entered in hisselective service files at notime was there accuracy question-after 20CadeThe release wus orderedcause of the draft boardTsure to grant O'brien oproceduraldue process of law." The courtconcluded that the SelectiveBoard*s ofailure to disclose thebasis on which it acted renderedinvalid the board's order to re-port for induction."Although O*Brien left the Armyas a Private, he feels his timein the Army was worthwhile onotSimply because I won my courtcase and gained release from theArmy, but because I was able tostay in basic for over 20 monthswithout serving in a capacity a-gainst my beliefs and was for thebe-fail-most part a liability to the Army.Hopefully,� OBrien continued, omyStruggle will benefit others intheir struggle with the oppres-Sive Army. My restraining orderwhich stopped the Army from put-ting me in jail was one of thefirst in the country." The re-straining order obtained by hislawyers was issued because thelegality of his induction was be-ing reviewed by the courts. Untilit was determined that O'Brienwas legally in the military, theArmy was restrained from court-martialing him. With his release,the Army was forced to drop thecharges against O*Brien for a 21_~day AWOL in January 1969. O'Brienwent AWOL to avoid shipment to FtGordon for training as an MP,feeling that he would be unableto serve in anti-riot duty orharrasement of GI dissenters, a,(continued on page 4

April 1970Arrest_On Sunday March 8, two mem-bers of GI's United, Dave O*Brienand Bill Carothers, were legallygetting signatures in USATCI.someone called a complaint in tothe MP station and Sgte JamesJudson was sent to investigate.He observed the petitioning andcalled the MP station to haveDave and Bill picked upe TwoSquad cars and two jeeps answeredthe calle The petitions wereseized, Dave and Bill were put upagainst the squad cars and sear«ched in front of about 40 train-eese They were then taken to theMP station where Judson, aftercontacting the Provost Marshall,Cole Kriwinak, charged them withillegal distribution of litera-ture and wearing mixed uniforms.They were held for three hoursand then released to their units.The petitions, with about 75 sig-natures were held for evidence.BRAGG BRIEFSLOCAL REPRESSIONRefusedPyvte Coleman has been,in basictraining for 10 months. He re-cently lost a hearing in EasternDistrict Court on a Writ of HebeasCorpus based upon grounds of er-roneous inductione However, heplans to appeal the courts decis-1on because he knows he was il-legally inducted.On hlarch 25, 1970, Pvte Colemanwas sent to E-7-2 for training,but after 2 days he came back toHHD 2nd Bde. The reason for histransfer is that he is filing fordischerge as a conscientious ob-jectore While in USATCI he hasbeen restricted for 10 months andfeels constantly harassed by thebrass on any technicality theycan finde"Hopefully, the Brass will re-alize that Black people aren'twilling to be trained to kill un-der the Red, White, and Blue".Page 2(continued from pace 1)task many MP*s find themselvesinvloved ineSumming up his military exper-ience, O*Brien said, oThe Armyradicalized me with their oppres-Sive tactics and forced me toread and study topics I hed neverthought of before. I was opposedto killing and participation inwar prior to my entry into themilitarys but I was typically Am-erican in my feeling that thecountry's foreign policy was cer-tainly righte While in the milit+ary, I realized a great deal a-bout economics, racism, and Amer-ican foreign policy; I realizedthat people can't speak of peacein Vietnam without actively work-ing to.-stop imperialism. It be-came clear that our involvementin Vietnam was not an abberationof our foreign policy but itsfruition.�April 1970BRAGG BRIEFSJ.f M.DKINSTON, N.C.Page 3GI MOVEMENT NEWSTACOMA, WASHINGTON.-ePVT Bruceiiaclean, an anti-war GI, was hust-led off the base at Ft Lewis andforced into a plane - destinationVietnam - durins the nisht of Feb19the PVT Maclean arrived at CamRanh Bay the followin: morningeThe American Serviceman's Unioninitiated lecal action to havehim brought backePVT Maclean happens to be oneof the organizers of the October20th ASU meeting at the Cascadianservice Club on the basee He and34 other anti-war GI's were ar-rested that night at the club.He was also one of the key wit-nesses at the people's trial ofthe Army at the University ofWashington on Jan 2lste Maclean,then AWOL, declared his supportfor the Nationel Front for Lib-eration of South Vietnam.MEMPHIS, TENNeeee The four blackmarines who were charged with con-Spiracy and rioting have won a tPpé@-mendous court victorye Facing poss-ible sentences, for the charges, ofup to 86 years in the brig, eacheInstead the maximun sentence wasSix months, and the others rangedfrom four months to thirty dayseCivilian attorneys for the de-fendants said oIt was a great vicetorye Of course they shouldn'thave received any sentence at allfor defending themselves, but it isa victory when you consider whatthey could have gotten�.In a similar case now pendingat Fort Knox, Kye one man has al-ready been sentenced to two and ahalf years at hard labor. It isvery possible that the differancebetween this and the Memphis ver-dicts was a direct result of organ-ized protests that poured into theFORT GORDON, GAeeoe The four Gele*swho in January of this year formedthe "oGele War Crimes Commission�"� atFort Gordon, have been tried separ-ately in special court-martials.The verdicts handed down by thefour different judges were typicalof military justicee Three contra-dictory verdicts were reached onthe disloyalty chargese Only oneof the four was convicted, two wereaquitted and the charge in one casewas ruled ounconstitutionly vague".The government did better on thesecond charge in which they achivedtwo convictionse The fact thatthey convicted the wrong persons isof course, irrel@vante P.F.C.Johnsons, who openly admits distrib-uting the leaflets in his companyarea was aquitted because of lackof evidence, while Pvte Czaplyskiand PFC Horner were convicted inspite of the fact that the onlyLabor Unrest on Ft Bragg;Army Out to Break Unionsair station after the case becameOn Tuesday Dave O'Brien was re- Y PHONE ee SerM I'M GOING To INSIST known to the vast publicestricted to his company area by Is BEING WHAT THE PHONE COMPANY�his CO pending investigation of - - sf 4the charges against him. After an TAPPED Do You KEDUCE MY.BILL TO |leaflets found on base were foundthree miles away in Johnson*s com-pany areaeDistribution Suits FiledPlans are being made to filearticle appeared in the local pa-per and a vist to JAG by Bill,Dave was taken off restriction2/ INTEND PARTY LINE RATES-.To DoSince March 3rd, barbers at FtBragg have been on strike. TheStrike began soon after CiceroSuits aginst the Army for on-postdistribution of GI free pressnewspapers at Ft Bliss, Texas andGrissom Air Force Base, Indiana_ The trials only served to publi-clize the activities of the commis-Sion which now has nation-wide sup-Fowler took over the management port, thanks to the Brass!!and the petitions were returnedwith no further action taken.OffAfter spending 10 months inbasic training and 6 months onrestriction, Pvt. Dennis Hallidaywas taken off restriction by hiscommander. Denny was taken offrestriction after he wrote a let-ter to Gen. Tolson regarding hisrestriction and oppression. Heis now awaiting a decision fromthe Federal District Courts onwhetner or not he will be awardeda Writ of Hebeas Corpus, basedupon his belief as a conscientiousobjector. If all goes well, Fvt.Halliday may soon ve released frompolitical bondage.Pvt. Halliday is a member ofGeI.*s UNITED and an editor on"BRAGG BRIEFS" while a subvject ofmilitary repression. He was onlyallowed leave at Christmas and onepass to see his attorneys. WOW!SeizureOn Monday, March 9th, RichCastelli, another GI*s Unitedmember was petitioning in thetraining center when two MI ag-ents approached him and confis-cated his petition. They gave hima receipt but no explanation ofhow to get his petition returned.The same day that the peti-tions were returned to Bill andDavid, two MI agents visited Richin his company and returned hispetition. They apologized fortroubling him.OrderOn March 2lst Mike Weintraubwas given a written order by hisCO not to circulate the petition:1) During normal duty hours, 2)While in complete or part of aduty uniform, 3) Without writtenapproval of the installation com-mandere After Mike visited JAGthe CO wrote a new order sayingthe petition could not be circu-lated during duty hours. Theother two points are not neces-sary for circulating a petition.ABOUTisReturned :On March 25 Sp/4 William Carothersa GIs United member was transferredout of his unit the 612th Qm Cowhere he was a parachute riggerto the 546th Trans Co to be trainedas a truck driver. This was doneeven though Sp/4 Carothers hasslightly over one month left in theArmy.After a visit to the 12thSupport Brigade IG he found out thatthe order had come from Col WMurley,the Brigade Commander. Col Murleyfelt that Sp/* Carothers was a pot-ential threat as he got nearer hisETS day because of his affiliationwith GIs United. Col Murley refusedto put his thoughts in writing andthe next day Sp/4 Carothers was reteurned to the %12th.TransferCongratulations to the 30lstASA Battalion for solving an-other of its "problems" in theusual mannere It seems they solveall their problems with transferseSp/4 Charles Arnold, 2 memberof GI's UNITED, who attempted topoint out the racist attitude inhis battalion along with organiz-ing dissident GI's, is now of the5th Evace Hospitale The officalreason for the transfer and theloss of his security clearencewas not given.This type of repression wil]Jast only as long as you allowite The fact is, it is nearly im-possible to have your securityclearence taken awayees 5 geeAnothér VietCasualtyof the shopse The new regime be-gan by raising haircut pricesfrom 90¢ to $13 while loweringthe barbers cut on each haircutfrom 65¢ to 60¢- The barbers*response to the exploitativemeasures was not long in comingeIt seems though ~that thereare few soldiers getting shaggyaround the earse Why? Because onmilitary pay either a soldiergets his haircut on post or doesnot get one at all since he canTtafford a haircut off poste Regu-lations eliminate the second al-~ternative thereby forcing the GIto assist in breaking the strikeby getting haircuts from the scabbarbers brought in by Fowler.The Army has never felt any a-version to strikebreaking andthrough post resulations and apolicy of obenign neglect" it hasprovided valuable assistance tothe concessionaire in his attemptto destroy Local 844 of the Bar-bers Union on Ft BraggLTC Wattendorf, the PX officer;claims the Army is not taking anysides, that it only odesires tosee labor peacee� But it 1S easyto see just where the Army standseIt condones Fowler's use of oyel-low dog" contracts, but does notallow the union to distributeleaflets on post explaining itsposition. Fowler can hire strikebreakers and scabs, but the unioncan't picket in front of the bar-ber shops or anywhere else onpost for that matter.For soldiers who can't get offpost there is little way for themto know there is a strike goingone. Anybody see an article inthe Pararlide or Veritas aboutthe strike?The Army claims that the dis-pute is between Fowler and theunion, and that the Army is notinvolved. It is involved in thisstrike in the same way that it isinvolved in the California tablesrane boycott and the recent mailstrikeefor the publications Gigline andAerospacede A similar suit hasalready been heard in the feder-al courts by Bragg Briefs; itwill soon be heard by the appealcourtse The legal work for allthree cases is being handled, inlarge part, by the GI Civil Lib-erties Defense Committee in NewYork. The suits, as the BraggBriefs suit, will seek a declar-atory judgment from the courtsthat GIs have the right to dis-tribute their literature on postsand, further, will ask that thecourts enjoin the Army from util-izing unconstitutional post orArmy regulations which deny dis-tribution rights.Petitioning DriveSucceeds on BraggGI*s UNITED has been coldect-ing signatures on a labor peti-tion for six weekse We now haveover 1,000 signatures, which weplan to take to Congress in May.We have had many hassels overthese past few weeks. ~The Brassknows this is a legal petition,but they have been arrestingpeople and seizing petitions soother people would be afraid toSign themeWe will not be intimidated!The petitions will fo to Congressand we will have change in theArmy! Oppression does not stopdetermination, and we are deter-mined to end our servitude assecond class citizense No form ofoppression should stop a personwho has grievences because it isnot simply your risht but ourduty to petition change.FIRST AMENDMENTCongress shall make no laws eeeoceee abricsing the freedom of sp-eech, or of the press; or of therient of the people peaceably toassemble, and to Petition TheGovernment for a redress of srie-vanceSeTony Auth/LNSHf anyone asks, tell them we wonr!TTMULDRAUGH, KYoee Local officialshave defied a federal court judgeand resumed their efforts to closedown a Gel. coffee house in thistiny town at the sates of Ft KnoxeSince February 24, two youngpeople have been in jail becausethey were challenring the legalityof the new attack. G.eJe*s havestarted a boycott of the Localmerchants in protest against thecontinued harrasmenteThe officials went ahead witheviction proceedings on opublicnuisance" basic. Gel. supportershave circulated a petition dewmanding an end to harrasment andthe firings of the police chief.All merchants refusins to signare being boycotted. Another pe-tition azainst the stockade systenis also being circulated.FT DIX, NEW JERSEY..ePVT CarlosRodriquez, the last of the Ft Dix38 to be tried by general court-martial has been sentenced tofour years at hard labor, a badconduct discharge, and partialforfeiture of pay on charges ofarsone PVT Rodriquez was acquit-ted on another charge of ricteHis four year sentence is thelonrest of any of the 38. Thetrial lasted five days; the jurywas out 70 minutes. Rodriquez*attorney .said they will appeal tothe next higher military author- ,ityeFORT BLISS, TPEXAS«ss On hisvisit to Ft. Bliss, General West-moreland had an unscheduled con-frontation with anti-war senti-mentSe Some 100 citizens turnedout for the demonstratione Nearly80 were Fort Bliss Gele'seGeileTsS For Peace planned andexecuted a peaceful, legal pick-eting of his appearence beforethe local chapter of the Asso-ciation of the United States Armyon January 15- The picketerscarried signs protesting ostock-ade brutality", stating "Peace isPatriotic� and "GIFP WelcomesGeneral Westmoreland".Of course, the General care-fully restrained from commentingon the demonstration as much aspossible although he was forcedto acknowledge theme Their pres-ence that evening forced him toamend his planned entrance to theHilton Inn to avoid the demonstra-tors themselves.FLAC FREES SPRING:On Saturday, April 4th theFayetteville Liberation ArtsCommittee (FLAC) is sponseringa second free concert to FREESPRING. The festival is happen-ing in Rowan Park right here inFayetteville from 1 till 5 inthe afternoon. Rowan Park is onWoodside Ave. between W. RowanDr. ard Hay St. At FREE SPRING#2 there will be a couple of rockbands and a theatre performanceby the Fayetteville Theatre Asso-Clation.This series of ccncerts isgponsered in the interests of theG.I. and the youth community efPayetteville. FLAC, a group ofGel.*s and other youth, hopes tobecome a forum for both the G.I.ard youth to speak out! We havebeer, silenced long enough. Wehave beer patient long enough.So come April 4th and helpFREE SPRING!it*s Free,

April 1970BRAGG BRIEFS Page 4An Introduction to GIlTs UNITED:THE FIVE POINT PROGRAMThe GI Movement .The Gel. Movement has grown in two years froma few dissenters to a strong political force in-volving thousands of G.I."s supporting over six-ty Gel. newspaperse Our struggle began in oppo-Sition to the Vietnam war, but has become astruggle against the established systeme All ofus have come to realize in the struggle that theVietnam war is not an accident but the directoutcome of the goals and policies of the UnitedStates» Politically conscious G.I.'*s must cre-ate a political movement because change willcome only when action by the people makes it pos-Sible.e The situation of G.I.'s makes us a partof the natural leadership of this rising move-What is Imperialism?Change can come only through the direct po-litical action of the people because the estab-lishment gives all power over the system to thosewho built it and profit from it - the imperial-ist ruling class.The society of the U.S. is a monopoly capit-alist imperialism. The social order is foundedon a very small number of very large corpora-tionse The managers and owners of these corpor-ations form an elite class dictatorshipe Thegoals and policies of our society are just vari-ations on those necessary for the businessmen,who control the economy, culture, and governmentof the United States...oe Py a8 %,'.° eee." 8 08 ¢,'o. @ 6 ste ,ose 4 Sf ate ROY ee 0¢ eee se G Seaie 9�, *0 ~ / T ed . * * Ose T vA T .ie eee ons. . y 7,9 4oe of Xx AC oh 8 OOg a ¢ Or� ope G+,weeiinTd, . @ * oe oof we Ce .9 eee p; ~ 4, T - oe e*s ee," "_""_"_" " - eed "-"-a EOLA LOOT OD OFDMa eting militarism and get us involved in Vietnam andmany other conflicts. At every turn the govern-ment has served the interests of capitalists andhurt the interests of the people.The war in Vietnam, in connection with theblack movement, has resulted in an uprising ofthe people which grows stronger every day. Theveneer of liberal legality is stripped away andthe class nature of the government is exposed.We see our rulers go to ever more repressivemeasures,T attempting to smash the popular drivefor peac® and ecomomic and political democracy.Why Vietnam?The government must try to put down the move-ment because the survial of capitalism dependson imperialism. Where the peace movement and theCivil rights movement realized that war and rac-ism were not accidents but policies of the rulingclass they became one movement demanding onething - POWER TO THE PEOPLE!The war in Vietnam and Laos is being fought toprotect the imperialists. It was easy for themto start this war without popular consent becauseof the militarism and the oarms race� which hasbeen the foundation of their profits since theSecond World War.The UeS.e got involved in Vietnam after W.W.IITheir goals are to make their businesses everlarger, richer, and more powerful. Their policyis to attain this goal by exploiting the peopleof the world in every way and in any degree pos-Sible - what they call minimizing cost and max-imizing profitseThe name for this policy is imperialism. Athome this struggle for capitalist survival takessuch forms as exploitation of wage earners, rac-ism and male supremacy, militarism, thought con-trol, political repression, cheating consumers,waste of natural resources, and pollutione A-broad imperialism means gobbling up natural re-sources and investments, exploiting "cheap for-eign labor", fighting for control of foreignmarkets, and forever waging war to protect in-vestments from other capitalist countries andthe countries being robbed.To do all this the imperialists must controlthe people of the world. They do so by settingup puppet governments=- dictatorships abroad andphony democrocies at home.Politics in*capitalist society takes a lot ofmoneys The rich thus control the political sys- .teme Besides controling the politicians theycontrol the media for political education -schools, newspapers, radio and television. Tofool the. people they use the jingoism of super-patriotism, racism,, and red - baiting. But thelaws that get passed are the laws the rulingclass wants.In the last twenty years this has become clearTas we have seen the government cheat thepoor,undercut the blacks, waste money on ever increas-~et Ph gy a watses a ir AP Ot a""_""gaa a Oe AO MILLIE Wr a a by supporting the colonial ambitions of France.The UeSe has stayed in Vietnam since the Frenchdefeat because of the U.-S. imperialist's neo-colonial ambitionse Military intervention warbegen in order to sabatoge the democratic processin Vietname The ruling class knew, as Eisenhoweradmitted in a speech in 19§6, that the vast ma-jority of the people in southern Vietnam wouldvote to be reunited with the Democratic Republicof Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh. Besides removingan area from imperialist exploitation this wouldalso be a major political defeat since the capit-alist ideology says no people would ever democra-tically elect a communist government.The Vietnamese freedom fighters are waging awar of national liberation,like other third worldcountires Vietnam is under-developed because ofimperialisme Much of the wealth that could beinvested goes into the bank accounts of the im-perialistse Moreover, these countries are de-liberately kept weak and divided so that thewealth will continue to go to the imperialists.All the people of the world including us cit-izens of the capitalist countries are victums ofthe imperialist system. Today the wars of liber-ation are the cutting edge against the systemeWe Gele*s are in a better position than anyoneelse in the U.S. to resist and weaken imperial-ism as we are its major tool of conqueste We

April 1970must learn to see through their leis, we mustunite to bring them down. The war is being ;fought to protect the economic interests of thecapitalists. But every gain for them is a lossfor use They tell us we're fighting to protectthe freedom of the Vietnamese, but we supportdictators. They tell us its a war for human dig-nity and yet it is based on and breeds blatantracism. Would My Lai have happened if instead ofbeing "little Slanty-eyed gooks� the people ofVietnam were white Europeans? Racisim is a dead-ly enemy of our interests. The white supremecyused to make us hate the Vietnamese and keep usdivided is also used to keep us divided at homeRacismThe war in Vietnam is a racist ware But then,the U-eS.- is a racist country. Racism, as we knowit, is a product of a class society with a profiteconomye It was created and sustained by thosewho profit from cheap labor and a divided people -the capitlists. Racial prejudice and discrimina-tion are profitable because they lower wages, di-vides the people, divert our attention and allowmembers of the dominant race to feel superior evanwhen they are bad off.Racism is a result of imperialism. The Indiansand spanish-speaking peoples are national minor-ities because white people stole their lands.Blacks are a national minority because whitesStole them just like any other onatural resource"of Africa.Racism continues because of the establishedSysteme It is difficult even under the best con-ditions for individuals to destroy pre judicesthey acquired as children. But it is impossibleto destroy them in a class society which is basedon the acceptance of inequality, which is racistin its basic structure, which breeds the fearand frustrations on which racism feeds, andwhich offers petty rewards to the people of thedominant groups for giving in to the rest of thpressures. |The movement for social, economic, and polit-ical power for the national minorities is themost advanced part of the progressive movements.The minorities are in the same situation as otherthird-world peoples in Asia, Africa, and SouthAmericae Neo-colonialism and racism are theirenemies. The end of racism can come only withblack power, brown power, yellow power, and redpowere Equality and human dignity will existonly when all peoples can meet as real equals.This means that the national minorities musthave the same control over their economies, soc-ieties, politics, and cultures that white people,aS a group, have over theirs.Because the leading elements in the blackstruggle have reached these conclusions they havecome out against the imperialists. Like the Viet-namese they too are fighting the battles forwhite Americans freedom and receiving the bulk ofthe repressione None of us shall be free untilwe unite against the racism that keeps us dis-united in the face of our common enemv.Democracy in the ArmyThe Armed Forces of the U.S- have only onepurpose - the protection of established businessinterests and the accumulation of new markets andinvestment opportunitiese The form of the U.S.Army is derived not from military necessity butfrom socio-economic necessity. The army is a cor-rupt, authoritarian caste system because our soceiety is one too. No other form of organizationcould hold men in line for purposes that havenothing positive to contribute to their lives.Unquestioning obedience to osuperiors� is neces-Sary only because a soldier who questioned whatour army is doing would not be a good tool ofimperialism.Our leaders know this is true. After W.W. IIdemocratic forms of army organization were im-Dosed on Japan and Germanye The U.S. imperial-ists kept theirs organized along the old Prussianlinese We wonder why?We want the U.eS. to be a truly democratic andpeace-loving country. If world imperialism whereended no country would need a large armye But ifwe have an army then we would want it to be aBRAGG BRIEFSKINSTON, N. C. seme iedemocratic one. An arm$ that exists solely toanswer the real needs of the people would be ableto function without authoritarian control and theabsurd regimentation found in our armiese Suchan army would be under the careful control of the.people as a whole where recruitment is trulyvoluntary and where a soldier can quit at will.Further, in such an army enlisted men would havea strong control over the selection of officersand NCO*s and the regulation of day to day life.Finally, in such an army the political and socialrights of soldiers would be strictly protected.If we are going to do political work, to devel-op ourselves and our movement we must defend ourhuman and democratic rightse While the constitu-.tion as a whole serves only to underwrite thepower of the ruling class, the Bill of Rights itcontains has traditionally served as a basis fordefense of the rights of dissenters.We must therefore resist any attempt to takeaway the rights allowed use Further we mustfight for our oconstitutional rights" to freedomof the press, speech, and assemblye Since pol-itical involvement by the people around our ownissues is a deep threat to imperialism, ourstruggle for our rights in the army is a directattack on imperialism itself.Part of this struggle is to unite in defenseof those caught up in the repressive apparatusof the army and the civilian government.Free All Political PrisonersThis is particularly important for GeI.~ssince every dissenting GeI. is a political pris-onere Either drafted or recruited under threatof the draft, into an army ~he can't quit, thesoldier is a prisoner of the statee We mustfight political oppression both to protect move=ment people and to fight for our own rightseGITs UNITEDGel.*s United at Fort Bragg is an organizationof active duty G.I.*s who are part of the worldwide progressive movement. We are in total op-=position to the war in Vietnam and the imperial-ist system in its entirety.e We have united to dopolitical education and political action in thearmy to help bring imperialism to an end.

April 1970(continued from page 1)gain = probably cost the good ol'US of A several thousand bucks.And this same man has the unmiti-gated, hypocritical gall to callhis troops opoor soldiers� whentheir gig lines aren't straight!Case Noe 2: A certain supplysergeant decided that his homeneeded new walls, so he orderedsome nice mahogony paneling onthe pretense of refurbishing anoffice where he workse When thesheets arrived, he proceeded toliberate the wood and falsify thepaperwork covering its shipvmenteYou can drop by this guy*s houseanytime, and he'll proudly showyou his attractive living roomand then, with a chuckle, tellyou how he managed the redecora-tinge He doesn't even bother tohide it! That seems like a zo0o0dcue for a moment*s digression totalk about the oldtimers in themilitary - mostly big brass - whoplace a high premium on a man'*sability to steal (that is, if theman is an E7 or above; don't tryit if youfre below that if youvalue your arse). How many taleshave you heard since you donnedOD about this or that marvelousNCO who could come up with theungodliest assortment of merchan-dise in the middle of a desertwhen nobody else could even get apencil to fill out a requisition?The hellof it is, these guys real-ly exist - and they're revered!Then there*s the one about thelight colonel in a local unit whobelongs to several civic and soc-ial clubs (non-military) in Fay-etteville. lian, those organiza-tions have got it made, for theyhave the men and resources of anentire military unit at their~disposal just for the asking. Anddon*t think they donTt askeThese instances we've citedaren't as isolated as you mightthinke How about the cases of thegun=-smuggling general and the em-bezzling sergeant major and thegreen beret gangsters that havebeen in the news lately, or thehigher-ups who allegedly whoallegedly tried to whitewash theMy Lai affair? Keep your eyes op-en in your own unit and see whatchicanery you can spots; yov pro-bably won't get eyestrain fromlooking too hardeLet*s consider just one aspectof this topic: money (not to men-tion those morals and ethics of-ficers and NCOs are supposed tohold so dear). How much did youshell out to the good uncle intaxes this year? A sizable sum,risht? Okay, now take a look atBRAGG BRIEFSthe obvious monetary waste inyour unit: see where your walletwent?The military hiecrarchy's mis-use of covernment funds occurs onthe job as well as in their per-sonal lifee Have you ever known aranking man who, in order to sat-isfy a personal whim, icnored arule or rezulation even thourh heknew that doing so was wrons? Youcan run right up the chain ofcommand with a list of exampleson that one, .oBy nowy, we hope we've made atleast a toehold case for the factthat higher ranking militarytypes show much more disrespectand contempt, both in quantityand quality, for their sovern-ment than younger, more ideal-istic troops whose main goal isto reform and improve the systemeWhat the younger troops, by andlarze, are doing is constructiveand prorressive, wheras what suchbigots as we've described are do-ing is catabolistic as helle So,what can you, the individual GI,do to make your vosition moretenable? For a start, you can a-void emulating your elders andkeep an eye out for the type ofactivities we've been discussing.Do a little detective work, fer-=ret out the evidence, get thefacts down cold, then hang theSOB*se A casual, well-documentednote to the IG (preferably a civ-ilian representative thereof)would do for a starte Now, let usguess what your thinking: "Sure,I'm really going to turn them into the IG and get my ass inajame� Well, you don*t have to set:in a jam if you use a little dis-cretion and subterfugee (1) Hangonto the lethal information untilyoufre about to ETS, then drop itby the IG while you're clearingposte (2) Write your congressmanor, better yet, find a guy fromArkansas and get him to writeFulbright. (3) If you can*t waitto see the fur fly and you aren'tshort enoush to try the firstsuggestion, get a buddy who isshort to drop in the complaint orcontact GI*s UNITED (we'll beglad to help). (4) Write an an-onymous letter to the guilty par-ty and threaten to spill thebeans; that should be good for afew clandestine sweat beads onhis browsAt any rate, don't let themget by with ite The guys mention=ed in our examples certainly arenot going to, and if they guesswho they are, they'd better startSweating, because this is a pub-lic notice that their number isUPeWhatever you do, man, when yousev the goods, cause a hassle!Just think of all the ulcers thatwill invade those brass stomachswhen the bigwigs learn that everyGI at Bragg is making like asnoope Needless to say, this ep-istle isn*t aimed at honest of-ficers and NCO*s, but there areenough dishonest ones to makethings on the American systemand budgete Okay, soldier, you'resworn to uphold the Constitution,So set to ite Just think how mucheasier it will be to breath downbelow if you car clean the scumoff the ton of the barrelePage 6Military Court of Appeals RulesAgainst Priest: Trial Date SetOn March 13th, the US Court ofMilitary Appeals upheld the rightof a commanding officer to over-rule a decision of a militaryjudgee The decision centered onwhether or not the Commandant ofthe Nava]. District of Washingtonapplied improper influence on thecourt-martial judge in the caseof anti-war sailor Roger Priestwho faces court-martial becauseof statements he made in his ser-vicemen*s newsletter "OM".The court-martial proceedingswere stopped on December 8th whenPriest appealed to the highestmilitary court to prevent prose-cution on two charges which hadbeen dismissed by military judgeCPT Be Raymond Perkins but werelater reinstated after the con-vening authority, Rear Adm GeorgeP Koch, ordered the judge to re-consider his decisione Priest'slawyers charged that the admiralTaction was a ogross usurpation ofthe authority of the militaryjudge, an unpardonable interfer-ence in the course of the pro-ceedings and a denial of due pro-cess of law." They asked that thetwo charges alleging that Priestsolicited servicemen to desertand commit sedition be againdroppede Though the court's de-cision refuted the defense law-yer*s position, it did acknow-ledge that ocertain anomalies inmilitary practice exist in com-parison with the procedures in .the Federal civilian courts, but,�says the court, " a difference ofprocedure is not tantamount to adue process defecte"Priest, the first serviceman toface court-martial for statementsmade in an anti-war newsletter, |will now stand trial in Washingtonon April 14th.In a final pre-trial hearing onMarch 20th Judge Perkins deniedall motions by the defense, includ-ing a request that correspondencebetween I.Mendel Rivers and thePentagon be subpcened, letterswhich plainly indicate that theHouse Armed Services Chairman ap-plied improper influence on theNavy in the caseePriest is also charged with mak-ing statements advising and urginginsubordination, disloyalty, andrefusal of duty by members of theArmed Forces and making statementsdisloyal to the United Statese Hefaces a maximum punishment of 39years in prisone©1967 Mi MGHTS OeseevEDze. ele. eit):

April 1970General Fouls WaterThe Commanding General of FortOrd is being sued by the state ofCaliforniae This was brought a-bout by his ignoring the cease "and - desist order which was lev-ied against him for continueddumping of undisinfected sewageinto the Monterey Baye It is notthe State of California's anti-pollution program or that he wasso busy trying to save this coun-try from destruction that he wascompletely ignorant of the factthat he was polluting our naturalwater WaAYSeAS,Brass Smashes M*A*S*HThat citadel of enlightment andtruth, the Ft. Bragg Paraglide, -commented last issue on the ban-ning of M*A*SH* by the Army andAirForce Motion Picture Service.M*A*SH* stars Elliott Gould,Donald Southerland and Tom Sker-ritt as three battle surgeonsdrafted during the Korean War.According to the Paraglide, agroup of 25 officers critics bann-ed it from distribution on mil:-tary installations. It is thefirst ban since 1963.The Reasons"The Surgeons clowning inthe movie would destroy a GI'sconfidence in combat medicaltreatment. "The Paraglidearticle continues, "AlthoughM*A*SH* protrays the surgeonsas competent professionals inthe operating room, it witting-ly characterizes them as estab-lishment pranksters with norespect for military disciplinevoth in and out of the bloodyoperating room.�7 what all this really means isthat the brass is upset over thedisrespect shown the Army machine.Even the bumbling Paraglide unwit-tingly admits it.It is also interesting that thepanel that eensored M*A*SH* wasmade up entirely of officers.Because a few officers objectedto the irreverence portrayed agali-qa first rate motionnst the Armys| =een off post.picture can only beAnd speaking of Armythe bress is so concerned abouta GI's confidence in medicaltreatment why donTt they dosomething about a certain Armydoctor at Womack Army lHicspitalwho told wounded Vietnam veturneecomplaining of chest poins:mien does it hurt? When you~+eFuck?Hospitals, 1fBRAGG BRIEFSPollution and ProfitWe have been hearing a greatdeal lately about the problems ofthe oenviroment� - air and waterpollution. Most of our rivers andlakes have water which is so fullof industrial filth and sewagethat the fish and other life inthem are dying, and our air is sofull of pollutants from automo-biles and factory smoke that itis estimated that within a fewyears some people in large cities(mainly infants, the sick andelderly) will begin to die frombreathing IteWe know how to stop this kindof thing - filter the air andpurify all water before returningit to the rivers and lakes. It iseven possible to build a virtu-ally smog-free car enginee Butthese things are not being done.Why?The filters and other devicesneeded to purify man-made wastescost money. The businessmen whosefactories and cars pollute theenvironment won't install thesedevices because it is not profit-able for them to do soe Becausedoing these things might cut intotheir exhorbitant profits orweaken their competitive positionin the market, the businessmen donot do them, and all of us sufferfrom irritated eyes and noseSs»higher cancer rates, and fewerplaces to swim or fish in cleanwatere The profit makers puttheir selfish interests above thecommon good of all the peopleeOne might suggest passing lawsto force the companies to cleanthe air and water they uS@�,�e Thiswould probably work, if the lawscould be passed and enforcedeBut can they be? The businessmenwho refuse to act responsibly to-ward our environment are the sameones who control the legislatures.Their money is necessary for asenator or congressman to pay forhis election costs - naturally heis going to defer to their inter-ests. The companies also in-fluence legislation by means ofthe powerful lobbies they main-tain in Washington and in thestate capitolseEven if the necessary lawscould be passed, there is verylittle hope of their being effec-tively enforced. The record ofAmerican business is one of con-stant contempt for the laws (suchas those concerning price-fixingand monopoly) designed to regulatetheme And when caught, how arethey punished by the courts? Theyare given absurdly small fineswhich they can pay easily and us-ually a slap on the wrist and awarning not to break the law againeThis is understandable, becausethe same politicians who servethe businessmen also appoint thejudges:The only conclusion that canbe drawn from the above evidence~is that the ae gdria and des-truction of ou® natural environ-ment will continuee It will con-tinue until the American peoplerise up and force the preedycorporations and corrupt poli-ticians to act for the commonTOO ePage 7Unpopular War, USAYes, we are in an unpopular WarSince we can't understand whatwe are fighting forNo more of this fighting we canlives. are at stakeWe realize this so called war oncommunism isnTt realSince our capitalists gainwealth while we fight andnatural resources and raw ma-terials they stealWe demand the fighting to ceaseBefore more deaths and injuriesincreaseOur people, we want brought backhome where they belongBecause we need them to help thestruggle here alongA struggle for freedom and peaceWhich our system does not preachNow, Every war will be unpopularto people as meUntil our home in American istruly FreeB.C.War to be Outlawed in MassachusettsA bill has been introduced inthe Massachusettes legislaturethat, if passed, would make com-pliance with orders for Vietnamillegal. In preliminary votes,the bill has passed with flyingcolors. It is designed to forcea decision by the Supreme Courton the legality of the war.oGive us this day ourdaily illusion . . .�Bragg Briefs is published by:GI's United Against the War inViennamPost Office Box #437Spring Lake, North Carolina 28390Meetings of GI*s United are heldevery Tuesday evening at 7:00 atthe oQuaker House" 324 Ray Avenueacross from the USO club. Everyoneis welcome.Letters to the editors are en-couraged.Fe Te HEE SEE FETE SE EEE HHH HHH HN AK HK KHHAA AHEDITORIAL BOARDFt Bragg Gits: John 1.3 Vail-USATCI, James Seiler=SAAFC, WilliamCarothersel2th Spt, a: _ Hal Noyes-JrK Center,Dennis W. Halliday-USATCI, LeslieH Fenton-7th SFG, Al Zubenko-VSATCI, cerry Rhodes-6th SFG, MikeWeintraub-6th SFG, Albert Singer-USATCI, Burley Coleman-USATCI,James Klima: .*-USAIMA, CharlesArnolde12th .. *ivj lianssi &iH OBrienwood~ iPot ee xy. ~@ g9+- :baStat c AligT: OC

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